One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
ALDOUS HUXLEYHug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.
More Aldous Huxley Quotes
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
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Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
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Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable.
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Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
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It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
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The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work’ with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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The third petition of the Lord’s Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone’s will be done but their own.
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Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
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Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
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